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Title: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: mimic on October 01, 2012, 08:33:48 pm: I have just read one of it's issues, what an awesome magazine! I cannot believe something like that exsists! I never seen any mention here, or did I just miss it? Anyway, I think it's a UK mag because it has a lot computers that I don't think were popular or well known in States, but it also covers a lot of consoles. I guess check it out! *cough* pdf *cough*.

EDIT: Oh, btw latest issue has on it's cover "30 years of Robotron"!!!
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: patm95 on October 01, 2012, 11:37:51 pm: I was at Microcenter just the other day and saw it for the first time. It looks awesome. I am regretting not picking up a copy.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: matsadona on October 02, 2012, 02:58:16 am: I have been reading it for years, and yes, it truly is awesome. To bad I missed the early years of it...
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: newsdee on October 02, 2012, 12:22:09 pm: It's very good - only gripe I have is I wish they covered a bit more of the Apple II era,
but I guess it can't be helped being an UK mag (given that c64 and speccy where much more popular there).

They used to have some DVDs with past issues - I recommend getting them if you don't mind reading the mag on a PC or an e-reader.
Otherwise, they reprint some content from time to time in specials (e.g. they recently did a "30 years of C64/spectrum" special issue)
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: Yeah8a8y on October 02, 2012, 06:37:05 pm: You can get the full back catalogue through the Apple News-stand app. Well it's Pixelmags app, but same old.

Very expensive way of doing it however.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: Well Fed Games on October 02, 2012, 06:40:24 pm: Quote from: Yeah8a8y on October 02, 2012, 06:37:05 pm
You can get the full back catalogue through the Apple News-stand app. Well it's Pixelmags app, but same old.

Very expensive way of doing it however.

Buying the issues at the real newsstand in the US is also very expensive, unfortunately. Even back issues on fleabay go for a high price.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: Yeah8a8y on October 02, 2012, 06:55:06 pm: Didn't realise they were so coveted. I was there back in the early days for both Retro and Gamestm, and had a cull about a year ago of all them. All in the recycle bin :banghead:
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: newsdee on October 03, 2012, 12:57:52 pm: Actually the DVDs are cheaper than getting individual magazines (printed or on the iOS app).
You can order them online, but I think volumes 1 & 2 (issues 1-50) are out of stock.
Title: Re: Anyone heard of Retro Gamer magazine before?
Post by: dragon32 on October 03, 2012, 02:33:52 pm: i subscribe to it,its been around fo rages, they don't cover arcade games or cabinets enough for my liking its normaly old computer/console games or programmers interviewed which is all good i guess